Like most people, we here at ActiveState like to loosen our belts around the holidays. This year, with our Sales Director away, we've decided to let loose with a good old-fashioned Thanksgiving / Black Friday / Cyber Whatever dev tools sale!

Komodo 7 Beta 1 is now available, with Edit builds as well as IDE. If you didn't get a chance to look at the Alpha, download the Beta now, give it a try, and let us know what you think. We'd love to get your feedback!

For programmers, one of the most common questions posed is "Why is my application taking so long?" For dynamic programming languages, there are often limited tools that can answer this important question, or variant questions like:

We've been writing a fair bit about Stackato recently, but mostly with IT managers and sysadmins in mind. We thought it was time to evangelize a bit to the Komodo community. Since it's developers who will be the day-to-day users of this platform, we'd like to get you involved a bit more and hear your feedback.

As part of the beta launch for ActiveState's Stackato cloud platform, we've written a Rails app that tracks the tweet activity on some of the players in the upcoming American presidential election (only less than 16 months away as I write this!). You can read more about CandidateBuzz here.

A couple of weeks ago we released Komodo IDE 7 Alpha 1 on an unsuspecting world. We want to get feedback on a couple of new features as early as possible so that we can incorporate the feedback in subsequent builds.

In other words: things might break, and things will change, but it'll be fun.